Watty's Awakening

beanielou

Blooming heck. How on earth would the cleaner know that VNM’s wallet was in his trousers. 

Watty1

beanielou said:

Blooming heck. How on earth would the cleaner know that VNM’s wallet was in his trousers. 

I was floored when she told me this, apparently in case he wondered where it was?????

I am relieved she is gone.  It feels a stress has been lifted.  Most likely I will get someone else but right now I just want to sort out WattyDog and find out what is wrong and what we can do to keep him comfortable for now.

Watty1

Cheap entertainment this weekend .  Coffee and cake at the church with a pal (£3.50) and a lovely chat, and much laughter.  Then yesterday evening local amateur dramatics play in garden of large house (donations not tickets).   Four of us with a picnic.  Lovely evening - but - my hearing is sub par and I realised I could barely hear a word.  So during the first half I watched the birds swooping over this beautiful house, admired the trees and decided I would have to get a hearing aid.   I shared this with my friends in the interval who reassured me they hadn't heard a word either and much hilarity followed as we tried to guess what was going on.  The more fizz we drank the more outrageous our suggestions, and those near us also shared they could not hear. 

At the end we all agreed it had been a lovely evening even if we were not entirely sure what was happening.  I have a headache this morning, no doubt due to the bottles of fizz consumed.  Plenty of water and I will be fine.

Red Arrows are performing locally today.  Not going to pay to go to the event, but will join other MSE folk in the lanes nearby so can watch from car.  Will take a flask.  Love this cheap pleasures (and the folk who also park up are always friendly and chatty hence my belief they are MSE folk

doingitanyway

Sounds like a lovely day. That is so funny...no one could hear and everyone suspected it was them! 
A flask and the RA how lovely. Enjoy 

Suffolk_lass

Watty1 said:

Cheap entertainment this weekend .  Coffee and cake at the church with a pal (£3.50) and a lovely chat, and much laughter.  Then yesterday evening local amateur dramatics play in garden of large house (donations not tickets).   Four of us with a picnic.  Lovely evening - but - my hearing is sub par and I realised I could barely hear a word.  So during the first half I watched the birds swooping over this beautiful house, admired the trees and decided I would have to get a hearing aid.   I shared this with my friends in the interval who reassured me they hadn't heard a word either and much hilarity followed as we tried to guess what was going on.  The more fizz we drank the more outrageous our suggestions, and those near us also shared they could not hear. 

At the end we all agreed it had been a lovely evening even if we were not entirely sure what was happening.  I have a headache this morning, no doubt due to the bottles of fizz consumed.  Plenty of water and I will be fine.

Red Arrows are performing locally today.  Not going to pay to go to the event, but will join other MSE folk in the lanes nearby so can watch from car.  Will take a flask.  Love this cheap pleasures (and the folk who also park up are always friendly and chatty hence my belief they are MSE folk

That is so funny. I saw my old work friend yesterday for coffee and I pointed out to her that I now have hearing aids (she has been mostly deaf in one ear for the thirty years we have been friends, as I always have to walk on the good side). Cue Spanish inquisition on how much, how comfortable, how comfortable - I seriously think she will look to get her hearing tested now. She has never had someone to ask about this before!

Mine are NHS after seeing a private audiologist - are free, batteries is the PITA part but not £3k - apparently the local trust don't offer NHS rechargeable mini USB hearing aids because the age profile of their users is relatively old and they forget to charge them! Enter the rock generation with younger loss of hearing. I would like to think this might change. Best of all, I have a thingy on my phone and any calls and clips on my phone transmit silently into my hearing aids. I do find my ears get itchy and I regularly clean the aids but without instructions, so not confident about this, other than using the mini pipe cleaner things. I do know water in the tubes stops you hearing through them now though! 🤔

I just love the fact that nobody else could hear either but you were the one brave enough to say so. Courageous Watty1!! 👏

badmemory

My hearing aids too were free & coming up for 2 years.  I can't have those that go within your ears because of the damage in mine that makes them a risk of infection.  I find them great for watching TV, less great in noisy areas & absolutely useless in supermarkets when I am near fridges & freezers.  As for going through one of those security things that they have in courts - I would have heard more with ear plugs in rather than hearing aids.

Watty1

thanks for the hearing comments - I'll add it to my health to do list but not urgent.  It was so funny, all of us sitting there thinking  "must get my hearing checked" until we compared notes

Watty1

WattyDog back at vets this morning and being referred to a neurologist.   Edited to say appointment Weds.    My heart sinks thinking the options over the vet discussed with me, but, if there is an outside chance then we need to investigate and offer him that.

Now to find his insurance details as we will need those for sure.

Alchemilla

Sorry Wattydog is poorly. Feeling your pain a bit with puppylove who I think has dementia.

Also the cleaner, I nearly took on a new one but she was flappy and kind of agitated around the dogs.

Good cleaners who don't go off the boil are rare.

Watty1

Thanks Alchemilla.   Its cleaner day, I'm just relieved she is not coming, and, have had a message from the agency owner to say they have fired her as she was not a good fit for her business.  I briefly felt bad as I was honest about her, but, then the VNM told me more of what she said and I realised I need to trust my instincts more and should have said a while ago she was just not a good fit for me.    Instinctively I felt that but the agency said there was no one else and that they had found her excellent.

A lesson for me, I have good instincts, listen to them.    Interestingly putting that there reminds me of two previous bosses who both said they would go with my instinct because they trusted I had a good sense of people.  PPH clearly being the exception.